altar

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈɒl.tə/|/ˈɔːl.tə/|/ˈɔl.tə/|/ˈoːl.tə/    美 /ˈɔl.tɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A table or similar flat-topped structure used for religious rites.
    — To hawke, or els to hunt From the auter to the funt, Wyth cry unreverent, Before the sacrament, Wythin the holy church bowndis, That of our fayth the grownd is.
  2. A raised area around an altar in a church; the sanctuary. informal
  3. Any (real or notional) place where something is worshipped or sacrificed to. figuratively
    — […]now marking the end of ascetic rationalism, the monadology no longer implied a sacrifice of individuality on the altar of rationality.

词形变化

altars plural

词汇关系

衍生词
altarage altar bell altar boy altar bread altar call altar card altar carpet altar cloth altar-cloth altared altar girl altar guild altarist altarless altarlet altarlike altar of repose altarpiece altar poem altar screen altar server altar society altar stone altar-stone altar tomb altarware altar wine altarwise high altar Lady altar lead someone to the altar leave someone at the altar superaltar

词源

Inherited from Middle English auter, inherited from Old English altar and borrowed from Old French auter, both derived from Latin altāre, probably related to adolere (“burn”); thus "burning place", influenced by altus (“high”). Displaced native Middle English wēved.
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